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02 12 CONTENTS INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT), RISING INVESTOR AUTOMATION AND BIG INTEREST TOWARDS THE DATA FUELING THE DATA DC SEGMENT CENTRE (DC) SEGMENT 04 16 DC EVOLUTION THE FUTURE OF THE DC IN INDIA SEGMENT IN INDIA AFTER THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK 06 20 REGULATORY PUSH TO DEFINITIONS PROPEL THE DC SEGMENT IN INDIA 08 TOP DC DESTINATIONS IN INDIA: MUMBAI AND CHENNAI © 2020 CBRE, Inc. |1
The adoption of smart technology is accelerating globally, with IoT-powered devices becoming a prerequisite to make our everyday tasks easier and faster. By 2025, an average person is likely to interact with a smart device nearly 4,800 times a day1. This projection is roughly triple of where we stand today. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, this projection is likely to be realized sooner than later. The rise in the number and usage of smart devices, coupled with increasing amounts of data consumption, has led to a surge in demand for DCs. Preference towards third-party data storage has thus been augmented in order to keep pace with the growing need to further process, store and analyse data. 1.1. India: One of the Fastest Digitising Economies Rapid digitisation, a widening customer base, improving tech infrastructure and increasing internet penetration have given a strong impetus to the DC industry in India (Figure 1.1.). McKinsey Global Institute’s (MGI) country Digital Adoption Index between 2014 and 2017 pointed out that despite its low base, India is the second fastest digitizing economy among the 17 leading economies of the world, including Brazil, China, Indonesia and the US. FIGURE 1.1. INDIA’S DIGITAL FOOTPRINT INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT), AUTOMATION AND BIG DATA FUELING 1.26 billion people with 697 million total internet 500 million smart phone 11 GB data consumption per USD 0.09 average cost of THE DATA CENTRE (DC) unique digital subscribers users smart phone per 1GB of mobile identity month data Source: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), 2020; Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), 2020; Ernst & Young’s report ‘Shaping SEGMENT the New Normal’, 2020; techARC’s report ‘techINSIGHT’, 2020; cable.co.uk data, 2020; CBRE Research, Q3 2020 The above numbers are expected to rise significantly in the coming years due to increased adoption of converged / hyper-converged infrastructure platforms and government initiatives to develop the digital economy. Subsequently, the growing importance of Big Data, Industry 4.02, 5G and cloud computing has led to DCs taking on an increasingly prominent role in recent times. 1.2. Data Consumption After the COVID-19 Outbreak in India The role of DCs got further widened by the surge in data storage and processing requirements resulting from increased levels of remote working during the pandemic period. According to the Department of Telecom (DoT) in April 2020, India’s internet consumption rose by 13% since the nationwide lockdown in March. The rise reflected the growing consumption of streaming content and increase in work from home, which led to higher data demand from residential areas as compared to commercial centres, according to the DoT. Similarly, while India's data usage per smartphone has grown by more than 20% over the last two years, averaging at about 11 GB / month, it has seen a further rise of about 20% - 25% within a period of two months since the lockdown3. 1. International Data Corporation (IDC)’s report ‘Data-2025’, 2017 2. Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses majorly on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. 3. Ernst & Young’s report ‘Shaping the New Normal’, 2020 2 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. |3
The evolution of DCs in India can be traced back to 2007: the era of the dotcom boom, which resulted in a growing need for DC operators (Figure 2.1.). FIGURE 2.1. THE FOUR STAGES OF DC EVOLUTION IN INDIA S T A G E S T A G E 1 (PRE-2007) 2 (2007 – 2012) OUTSOURCING DATA STORAGE SPACES DOT-COM BOOM DC EVOLUTION IN Data storage requirements continued to Corporates stored data in in-house grow exponentially; corporates moved to servers / captive DCs outsourcing storage spaces in colocation DCs to focus on their core business DC growth for captive facilities at the INDIA highest level in the wake of the dot-com Broadband network prices continued boom during 2005-06 to erode, resulting in exponential growth in data production Third-party DCs expanded their capacities across India to meet the growing demand for data storage S T A G E S T A G E 3 (2012 – 2016) 4 (2016 ONWARDS) CLOUD AWARENESS EMERGENCE OF HYPERSCALE, PICKED UP PACE HYPER-CONVERGED Foreign cloud players entered India INFRASTRUCTURE (HCI) and conducted ‘cloud computing’ AND MULTI-CLOUDS awareness campaigns The data requirements of occupiers Established colocation DC players started growing, resulting in operators started improving cloud capabilities constructing hyperscale DCs Occupiers began using colocation Occupiers are also now increasingly services for critical applications and using hybrid cloud (colocation + private / cloud for R&D, testing and public cloud), HCI and multi-cloud development requirements deployments Source: CBRE Research, Q3 2020 4 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. |5
Over the past few years, the government has launched several initiatives to promote data localisation. These include the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) (2006), Disaster Recovery (DR) / Near DR requirements (2009), GI Cloud Initiative / MeghRaj (2013), Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) (2016) and Storage of Payment System Data (2018). Moreover, the finalisation of the Draft E-commerce Policy (2019), Draft Data Protection Bill (2019) and the proposed policy on DC parks (2020) is likely to further boost demand for data storage across the country (Table 3.1.). TABLE 3.1. A SNAPSHOT OF KEY DC-ORIENTED DRAFT POLICIES PROPOSED / IMPLEMENTED DURING THE PAST TWO YEARS IN INDIA: REGULATORY PUSH Policy Description Considering the growth of digital payments, the Reserve Bank TO PROPEL THE Storage of Payments System Data, 2018 of India (RBI) has directed all payments providers to store data in India to ensure better monitoring and unfettered supervisory access. DC SEGMENT IN INDIA A detailed policy framework has been proposed which is likely to look into the key issues related to the e-commerce sector including processing of data, infrastructure, marketplace, Draft E-commerce Policy, 2019 regulations, digital economy, export promotion etc. In addition, as per recent articles, the new revised draft also calls for setting up a regulator for this sector. The bill prioritises local data storage, which is expected to Personal Data Protection Bill, enhance DC demand. Corporates are already demanding 2019 large-scale spaces for data storage in anticipation of the clearance of the bill. In order to improve the infrastructure and back-end value Proposed DC Park Policy, 2020 chain, the government has recently proposed a DC park policy to enable private sector to build DC parks across the country. Source: CBRE Research, Q3 2020 Among all Indian states, Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamil Nadu were the first movers to release state-specific incentives for the DC segment. Several other states have now started offering / plan to offer incentives to DCs over the coming quarters. 6 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. |7
Recent years have seen the emergence of important new locations for DCs in India, especially Mumbai and Chennai as they are home to multiple undersea cable landing stations. 4.1. Mumbai Mumbai is India’s largest DC colocation market, with a total capacity of 215 MW (as of Q1 2020). Outsourcing demand has continued to grow, driven by cloud players and technology firms looking to cater to the high number of large financial institutions and other corporates headquartered in the city. The nature of financial services coupled with the central bank’s regulations have resulted in a plethora of BFSI firms housing their DCs in the country’s financial capital. In recent years, Mumbai has witnessed high levels of new supply, on the back of large global PE investor interest. The city also boasts of a strong project pipeline, with many established international operators looking to expand and enter the market. FIGURE 4.1. TOTAL DC CAPACITY IN MUMBAI BY STATUS* (IN MW) MUMBAI 215.0MW TOP DC DESTINATIONS IN INDIA: MUMBAI AND 100.0MW CHENNAI Q1 2020 Upcoming Supply (Q2 2020-2022) Occupied Fitted Capacity Fitted Vacancy Shell Capacity Source: CBRE Data Centre Solutions, Q3 2020 *Note: Only carrier neutral colocation neutral facilities are included. Chart Scale: Each block stands for 25MW 4.2. Chennai International cloud DC players are primarily attracted to Chennai, owing to its coastal location, which provides substantial cost arbitrage through the use of direct submarine lines. State subsidies for DC development, coupled with Chennai being an obvious secondary or disaster recovery site, has further boosted DC activity in the city. DC demand has been recently increasing owing to the strong presence of domestic tech firms, resulting in the city being perceived as a primary data storage location as well. FIGURE 4.2. TOTAL DC CAPACITY IN CHENNAI BY STATUS* (IN MW) CHENNAI 68.0MW 40.0MW Q1 2020 Upcoming Supply (Q2 2020-2022) Occupied Fitted Capacity Fitted Vacancy Shell Capacity Source: CBRE Data Centre Solutions, Q3 2020 *Note: Only carrier neutral colocation neutral facilities are included. Chart Scale: Each block stands for 25MW DC activities are also gradually picking up in other major cities such as Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore and Kolkata with various players planning to increase their DC footprint in these regions, especially in the post-COVID environment. 8 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. |9
4.3. DC Rentals: India vs APAC Given that Mumbai and Chennai are at a nascent stage in terms of DC development, rentals range considerably in both the markets (Figure 4.3.) 4. FIGURE 4.3. DC PRICING IN PROMINENT APAC MARKETS: A COMPARISON Pricing (USD per kw per month) INDIA HONG KONG HYPERSCALE CLOUD (above 1MW) HYPERSCALE CLOUD (above 1MW) USD115-USD140 USD170-USD200 WHOLESALE COLOCATION (500kW) WHOLESALE COLOCATION (500kW) USD150-USD190 USD230-USD270 RETAIL COLOCATION (250kW) RETAIL COLOCATION (250kW) USD200-USD230 USD300-USD350 TOKYO SINGAPORE HYPERSCALE CLOUD (above 1MW) HYPERSCALE CLOUD (above 1MW) USD128-USD157 USD138-USD158 WHOLESALE COLOCATION (500kW) WHOLESALE COLOCATION (500kW) USD179-USD218 USD175-USD255 RETAIL COLOCATION (250kW) RETAIL COLOCATION (250kW) USD227-USD278 USD230-USD280 4. CBRE’s, ‘Asia Pacific Data Centre Trends’, H1 2020 Source: CBRE Data Centre Solutions, Q3 2020 10 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. | 11
5.1. The global DC investment landscape Along with rising end-user demand, CBRE expects the DC sector to benefit from investors’ emerging preference for assets providing stable income streams. Globally, the COVID-19 outbreak has led to a shift in investor preference towards DCs. For instance, DCs were amongst the top performing assets in the US REIT market, providing total returns of around 19.3% in the first five months of 20205. 5.2. APAC DC investment landscape CBRE’s 2020 Asia Pacific Investor Intentions Survey found that when it comes to preferred alternate segments, about 30% of respondents across the region are considering investing in DCs this year, a substantial increase from 18% recorded in 2019 (Figure 5.1.). FIGURE 5.1. APAC’S TOP FIVE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE SECTORS FOR INVESTMENT 2018 2019 2020 35% RISING 30% 25% % of respondent INVESTOR INTEREST 20% TOWARDS THE 15% 10% DC SEGMENT 5% 0% Data Centre Real Estate Student Retirement Healthcare Debt Living Living Source: Asia Pacific Investor Intentions Survey, CBRE Research, Q1 2020 In the past few years, direct investment in DCs was limited across the APAC region due to lack of investable stock and relatively tight regulatory restrictions. DCs accounted for just 1.5% of the total APAC industrial real estate investment volume between 2015 and 2019. However, investor inclination towards the segment is expected to further increase post the COVID-19 outbreak, with various initiatives being evaluated across countries to ensure a well-established and transparent data regulatory framework and competitive transaction practices. CBRE’s 2020 Asia Pacific Investor Intentions Survey found that 50% of investors polled after the Wuhan quarantine on 23 January 2020 expressed interest in DCs, compared to 27% prior to the outbreak6. 5. REIT.com (https://www.reit.com/what-reit/reit-sectors/data-center-reits), Data as of 31 May 20202. 6. Asia Pacific Investor Intention Survey, CBRE Research, March 2020. The survey was conducted between 16 December 2019 and 16 February 2020. 12 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. | 13
5.3. India’s DC investment landscape The Indian DC segment has also been attracting investments from various investors / operators in 2020, key instances of which include: TABLE 5.1. KEY RECENT DEALS IN DC SEGMENT IN INDIA Investment Investment Period Investor Details value (USD mn) Route Plans to double the Jan Built to suit NTT 1,500 company’s DC footprint in 2020 (BTS) India. Plans to set up two DCs in Telangana. The centres A large are likely to come up in Feb e-commerce 1,600 Hyderabad’s Pharma BTS 2020 player City Industrial Area and Chandenvelly Industrial Area in three phases. Plans to purchase more than May A global tech 2.5% stake in Jio Platforms 2,000 Partnership 2020 player to leverage Microsoft Azure’s cloud services. Plans to invest in Jul A global tech 10,000 accelerating digital services Equity 2020 player in India. Signed MoU with the Tamil Jul Nadu government to set up Adani Group 306 Partnership 2020 a DC in SIPCOT7 IT Park in Chennai. Plans to set up a DC park Jul Yotta on the Singaperumal- 400 - 530 BTS 2020 Infrastructure Oragadam Highway, Chennai. Announced the acquisition of Aug GPX Global Systems’ Indian Equinix 161 Acquisition 2020 arm, which has two DCs in Mumbai. Source: Media Articles; CBRE Research, Q3 2020 As can be deduced from the Table 5.1., BTS8 , acquisition and equity investments remain the preferred routes into the sector in India. Investors are also likely to form partnerships9 with experienced operators and developers to gain exposure to the sector. This approach enables investors to leverage their partner’s expertise in areas such as site selection, operations and regulatory compliance. Other potential entry routes include co-mingled funds10. 7. State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu 8. Customized facilities for large occupiers 9. Joint venture between various DC players 10. Investment in portfolios containing other RE assets 14 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. | 15
6.1. Outlook for the Indian DC segment: The next 12-18 months SUSTAINED POLICY IMPETUS TO SPUR DC DEMAND: The passage of policies such as the National E-commerce Policy and Personal Data Protection Bill would restrict cross-border flow of data and impose tough penalties on data breach, thereby boosting DC demand in India. More importantly, the proposal to give DCs the coveted ‘infrastructure status’ would place them high on the global investor radar. Moreover, large-scale nationwide initiatives such as ‘Make in India‘, ‘Digital India’ and Smart City Mission’ are expected to propel the manufacturing sector, and the promotion of tech resulting from these drivers is likely to further augment DC demand. All three initiatives involve a higher scale of R&D via increased use of tech such as AI, IoT, cloud computing, Big Data and machine learning. These initiatives, coupled with the Budget announcements in February 2020, are expected to further encourage private sector participation in the DC segment and pave the way for additional institutional investment in the coming quarters. Once THE FUTURE OF finalised, we also expect these data localisation mandates to strengthen the link between office space leasing and DC demand over the coming quarters. THE DC SEGMENT TRANSITION FROM CAPTIVE TO COLOCATION / CLOUD DCs: IN INDIA AFTER THE With regulatory requirements for data storage expected to be implemented in the coming quarters, we anticipate that corporates would now re-evaluate their DC portfolios in the country. It is likely that select corporates would continue to COVID-19 OUTBREAK use ‘legacy’ business applications (not attuned to cloud) and would still demand colocation spaces; however, newer entities and start-ups are expected to propel the demand for cloud storage. As most app-based and over-the-top (OTT) media services also run on the cloud, the demand for hyperscale DCs is expected to strengthen in 2020. We anticipate that tech companies, along with corporates from sectors such as fintech, pharmaceuticals / healthcare, education and media & content, would boost DC demand in India. DC CAPACITY TO GROW FASTER IN 2020: As the requirement to work from home gets extended across various corporates due to the pandemic, the need for data storage is likely to grow further. This is expected to lead to a substantial addition in DC stock across the seven key cities during 2020-21, causing the country’s DC capacity to cross 600 MW. This supply addition is likely to be dominated by global players or leading domestic operators in the cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi-NCR – underlining the superior quality of DC space that is likely to be released in the country. 16 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. | 17
EDGE COMPUTING TO BECOME A PART OF DC PORTFOLIOS: 6.2. LONG-TERM OUTLOOK: INDIAN DC With tech such as AI, IoT, Machine Learning, Big Data and cloud computing becoming more mainstream, DC developers are increasingly redesigning their SEGMENT BY 2030 offerings with an aim to incorporate edge computing so as to process data as close to their end-users as possible. We anticipate that cities such as Kolkata, Pune, DC DEMAND TO SURGE: Gurgaon, Kochi and Jaipur, particularly, are likely to witness the completion of edge DCs during 2021-23, on the back of their ability to service specific geographic Increased use of tech, social media and online streaming, coupled with a zones. burgeoning population, is likely to boost DC demand, resulting in India becoming one of the largest DC destinations across APAC over the next decade. For instance, it is estimated that India would be home to more than one billion internet users by 203011, further boosting consumerism, the omni-channel presence of brands and FUND DEPLOYMENT TOWARDS DCs TO RISE: the e-commerce sector in India. The adoption of 5G, particularly, would give a fillip DCs were identified as one of the top five alternate investment RE options in CBRE’s to the OTT industry, thereby spurring the demand for edge computing. APAC Investor Intentions Survey, 2020. The same survey in 2019 had highlighted India as one of the top investment destinations across APAC. We, thus, expect that global players would continue to take interest in investing in the country, with a DC STOCK IN INDIA TO QUADRUPLE: focus towards backing leading operators or funding prominent developers to foray into the DC segment in the coming quarters. Due to the ever-increasing demand for data storage, we expect domestic / global operators to increase their DC footprint. This is likely to result in India’s DC stock to grow from more than 500 MW to about 2,000 MW over the next decade. We also anticipate that DCs (colocation, hyperscale and cloud) would come up in both tier I and select tier II cities. DCs CAN GO ‘REIT’ABLE: With progressive interest of global investors, operators and developers in the Indian DC segment, it is likely that the next decade may witness the inclusion of quality DCs (with high occupancies) in future REIT portfolios. 11. World Economic Forum, 2019 18 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. | 19
DEFINITIONS COLOCATION HYPERSCALE FITTED SHELL UPCOMING DC COLOCATION CAPACITY CAPACITY SUPPLY KEY TERMS A standalone building in Typically denotes large The amount of power The amount of power The amount of IT power OVERVIEW which multiple companies power requirements (>500 available immediately in available in a DC space that available in a proposed share space for storing kilowatts, kW) but end-user fully fitted DC space is pre-qualified for power DC facility where CBRE is and running their IT is specifically a cloud or and telecom access and aware of business case and equipment, akin to a multi- large tech company with amenable to DC use operator plans to develop tenant office building or requirements for scalable apartment complex power, storage, and cooling WHOLESALE RETAIL “CARRIER” OR “NEUTRAL” INDUSTRIAL COLOCATION COLOCATION COLOCATION DCs FOR DC USE ELECTRICITY CAPEX Typically denotes large Typically denotes smaller CBRE tracks only the carrier Refers to high level As per high voltage power Refers to capex for a DC power requirements (>500 power requirements (10kW neutral colocation markets indicative rents (not rates obtained by the build to a standard market kilowatts, kW) to 500 kW) which excludes non-carrier specific to a site level) local grid for Q4 2019 for level offering, inclusive of neutral facilities, system for industrial buildings larger scale industrial and land, shell and core, fit-out integrators and self-owned occupied by DC operator commercial end-users such capex. CBRE numbers are facilities (including the tenants as DCs high level estimates based on hyperscale cloud) our market understanding from project management experience; however, final capex numbers may vary according to individual sites 20 | DATA CENTRES – THE NEXT ‘CHARGED UP’ WAVE © 2020 CBRE, Inc. | 21
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